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Klappentext The best-selling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel revisits his utterly charming debut novel, On Love. The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a Paris-London flight, and by the time they've reached the luggage carousel he knows he is in love. He loves her chestnut hair, watery green eyes, the gap that makes her teeth Kantian and not Platonic, and her views on Heidegger's Being and Time -- but he hates her taste in shoes. Plotting the course of their affair from the initial delirium of infatuation to the depths of suicidal despair, through a fit of anhedonia -- defined in medical texts as a disease resulting from the terror brought on by the threat of utter happiness -- and finally through the terrorist tactics employed when the beloved begins, inexplicably, to drift away, On Love is filled with profound observations and useful diagrams, examining for all of us the pain and exhilaration of love. "Imagine, of all impossible things, a young British Woody Allen with the benefit of a classical education and you have the nameless and exquisitely erudite member of On Love, a first novel by Alain de Botton, who seems to have been born to write." Zusammenfassung On Love is globally bestselling novelist-philosopher Alain De Botton’s iconic debut?the novel that launched his decorated literary career; and a funny! profound! and searingly true-to-life exploration of love. A man and a woman meet over casual conversation on a flight from Paris to London! and so begins a love story?from fist kiss to first argument! elation to heartbreak! and everything in between. Each stage of the relationship is illuminated with starling clarity! as de Botton explores emotions often felt but rarely understood. Now! in tandem with the arrival of The Course of Love ?de Botton’s first novel in twenty years and one about mature love?we celebrate the timeless debut about young love that serves as The Course of Love ’s precursor and companion. Reissued with a brilliant introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of How Should a Person Be? ! Shelia Heti! On Love is a contemporary classic that should be read by anyone who has ever fallen in love. ...
